The Tree with Opposite Shadows

This is Amorella. Richard enjoys the humor of this photograph of a two-shaded tree. The darker shadow on the left and the leafy shadow on the right. With a little imagination there is evidence of two suns in the sky. One visible in the sky to the left (the east) that causes one shadow and the other invisible sun in the western sky that causes the western tree shadow to the left. Anyone who out thinks the photograph may see the humor, the joke, if you will. One shadow is real and the other is the thicker shade from a tree further east than the center tree is not real (as far as the central tree is concerned).

This is somewhat embarrassing Amorella because when I took the picture that is what I immediately thought, ‘this picture shows evidence of two suns in the sky,’ and as Earth only has one sun it struck my ‘what if’ curiosity to jump to another like situation.

Let’s say there is a planetary system on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy that has a similar yellow sun to our own. Three planets that support life in that solar system are fully inhabitable. The alien humanoids living there run from danger for survival rather than fight because they have more places to run to. In the process, over the millenniums these people successfully inhabit and civilize all three planets. Individual rights rule unless they conflict with the rights of group. Running for individual survival worked for the aliens because they have three planets to run to while we only have one planet.

I think this scenario is funny because if such a humanoid species landed on Earth with peaceful intentions, many human beings would not like them so much because G---D gave them three planets and we only get one. Make the alien species generally more humane in their behavior than humans; that is, they provide, ) earthlings charity (free of charge and obligation) to make better healthy living and comfort for all the peoples of the world, and wait and see what happens.

My humor is admittedly gallows-like and it has a tricky juxtaposition built in: the feeling growing in earthlings who know of the aliens is the feeling that humanity is being exploited by these friendly, far more scientifically and technologically oriented, and charitable planetary foreigners whose only crime is that the alien species began socially evolving some twenty thousand years before humans did.

The two seemingly good situations for the humanoid-like aliens: one, having three comfortable planets to live on; and, two, having survived longer as a species by running as they have more places to run to rather than by fighting, can leap to a sense of injustice from the human perspective. The humans stand and fight to remain as they are, despite immediate available humane alien charity. The aliens, in my imaginary scenario, run away when confronted as they always have. And, that, as some say, is that.

This is a rather two-shaded history for both the friendly aliens and the normally friendly humans. This is what comes to mind. You can imagine what comes next for aliens and humans alike. Very funny.

You are in a better mood than I thought you would be after such a busy day. It’s all out of your own head, no question about that.

My sense of humor is a bit darker and more broad-minded than it used to be. By my Free Will the humor is mine though, and no one is going to take it away from me without a fight.